Simultaneous post-transcriptional gene silencing of two different chalcone synthase genes resulting in pure white flowers in the octoploid dahlia

Planta

Volumn 234, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 945-958

  Ohno, Sho ^a   Hosokawa, Munetaka ^a   Kojima, Misa ^a   Kitamura, Yoshikuni ^b   Hoshino, Atsushi ^c   Tatsuzawa, Fumi ^d   Doi, Motoaki ^a   Yazawa, Susumu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^d IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CHS; Dahlia variabilis; PTGS; Pure white flower; siRNA

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ANTHOCYANIN; CHALCONE; CHALCONE SYNTHASE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DAHLIA; ENZYMOLOGY; FLOWER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT GENE; POLYPLOIDY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANTHOCYANINS; CHALCONE; DAHLIA; FLAVONES; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; POLYPLOIDY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

DAHLIA; DAHLIA VARIABILIS;

EID: 80155130550     PISSN: 00320935     EISSN: 14322048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-011-1456-2     Document Type: Article

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